Domestic abuse is insidious, with a few warning signs within a new relationship overlooked in that hazy, rose-tinted euphoric stage of falling in love.

"I'm sat here as living proof you will be able to stand again," says one survivor.

The "culture of affluence" creates special challenges for wealthy victims of intimate partner abuse. We need to understand their predicament to offer meaningful help.

Following the passing of landmark legislation in 2022 that criminalised coercive control in New South Wales, a 34-year-old man has now become the first person sentenced to prison under the law.

It has been 10 years since coercive control became a criminal offence in England and Wales, but it can still be hard to identify.

Coercive control almost always accompanies intimate partner violence (IPV), but IPV doesn’t need to accompany coercive control to effectively gain power and dominance over an intimate partner.

In public the Sydney man was the picture-perfect partner, but behind the scenes was manipulative and controlling.

In May 2007, my cherished childhood friend, Shelby, was murdered by her coercively controlling, abusive, estranged husband. The heinous act was all premeditated. Weeks after she finally left him, ...

A councillor arrested last year on suspicion of coercive and controlling behaviour will face no further police action. Adam ...